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or by any audience. It has met the 

 inianimous approval of all that have 

 heard it. It seems not like a machine 

 but like the living performer himself. It 

 does efBciently all that it tries to do. 

 The machine has been used in so wide 

 a range of tests that we unhesitatingly 

 ■endorse it as the best phonograph in 

 existence. We give that as our unqual- 

 ified and unstinted testimonial. Its 

 merits demand nothing less. 



Some of our friends may contemplate 

 the purchase of a phonograph. Our 

 tuihesitating advice is, "Get the best, 

 and the best is the Diamond Disc made 

 iDy Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, 

 Orange, New Jersey." 



That Marvelous Stump Puller. 



It seems too good to be true, and 

 some of our friends have felt that we 

 are publishing a fraudulent advertise- 

 ment, when we say that a little machine 

 <:an pull forty-eight tons by hand pow- 

 •er. I do not wonder that our friends 

 are astonished v/hen they learn that 

 with a simple lever one man can pull a 

 weight greater than sixteen horses can 

 pull. But the editor assures his readers 

 that he has personal knowledge of the 

 Tnachine's efficiency. He has seen it in 

 operation on the premises of Ernest 

 Thompson Seton at Greenwich. Mr. 

 Seton is enthusiastic in regard to the 

 ef^ciency of the machine. He told me, 

 ■"You may safely praise it to any of the 

 readers of The Guide to Nature. It 

 accomplishes all that is claimed for it." 

 No other invention of equal simplicity 

 "has ever achieved such marvelous re- 

 sults in uprooting the biggest stumps as 

 easily, the manufacttirer claims, as 

 rowing a boat. One movement of this 

 machine oar pulls ninety-six thousand 

 pounds. No wonder it has been adopt- 

 ed by the United States Government. 



Right for the Zoo? 

 Dressed in the latest motor cycling 

 costume, with goggles all complete, the 

 motor cyclist gaily toot-tooted his way 

 toward the Zoo. Suddenly he dis- 

 mounted, and said to an urchin, " I 

 say, my boy, am I right for the Zoo?" 

 ■^'You may be all right if they have a 

 spare cage, but you'd ha' stood a far 

 iDetter chance if you'd had a tail." — Mel- 

 "bourne Leader. 



Increase of Payroll. 



The C. P. Goerz American Optical 

 Company has just announced to their 

 office and factory staff a general in- 

 crease in salaries and wages to take 

 effect about December 15th, 1916. 



The reason giveji is the ever in- 

 creasing cost of living which the man- 

 agement feels should be compensated 

 for as far as the rather adverse con- 

 ditions under which the Goerz Com- 

 panv has to work on account of the 



AN INTERESTIXG PHOTOGRAPH WITH A 

 GOERZ LENS. 



war abroad will allow, by a suitable 

 increase in the earnings of their loyal 

 employees. The proposed increase 

 will add more than ten per cent, to the 

 present payroll of the Company. 



Plants Proof against Chickens. 



"Guess the neighbors' chickens won't 

 bother my garden next spring." 

 "What are you going to raise?" 

 "Cactus, Spanish bayonet and prick- 

 ly pear." 



